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September 15, 2025OBPO Launches SUPPORT ONTARIO PUBLISHERS Campaign to Bring More Canadian Books Into Ontario Schools
The Ontario Book Publishers Organization (OBPO) has launched a new campaign calling for more Canadian books in Ontario classrooms. The initiative, Support Ontario Publishers, aims to ensure that students ...
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July 26, 2017Getting to know Glorious & Free Authors Kim Bozak & Rita Field-Marsham
Glorious & Free (House of Anansi Press) by Rita Field-Marsham and Kim Bozak examines the impact and inspiration of 33 exceptional Canadians, using their achievements and innovation as a lens to ...
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July 27, 2016Poets in Profile: Sean Braune
Poet and academic Sean Braune brings readers immediately into his new chapbook, the vitamins of an alphabet (above/ground press) with not even a capital letter to slow the entry. This energy and immediacy ...
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April 07, 2017
Ordering a Poetry Manuscript
There are a lot of steps to writing and publishing a book of poetry, well beyond the obvious writing of the poems. You have to be able to describe your manuscript (for grant applications and submissions), ...
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January 09, 2017Dispatches From Berlin
This is a departure for the series. Lutz Göllner lives in Berlin, Germany. We met online due to our mutual appreciation of Frank Miller's work. Lutz has met Miller and translated some of his writing ...
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November 10, 2016The Lucky Seven interview with Tom Malleson
Between the Lines Books' Fired Up series asks readers to think critically about social, cultural, and economic issues. The first instalment in the series is activist and professor Tom Malleson's Fired ...
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December 18, 201617 for 2017: Chase Strangio recommends Exile & Pride: Disability, Queerness and Liberation
8. Exile & Pride: Disability, Queerness and Liberation by Eli Clare recommended by Chase StrangioThroughout my tenure as the December Writer-In-Residence, I will be assembling a list of 17 must-read-books ...
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December 06, 2016The Proust Questionnaire, with Bruce Meyer
Countless Canadian writers have created memorable characters in the pages of their books, but in Bruce Meyer's Portraits of Canadian Writers (Porcupine's Quill), the writers are the characters. From ...
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February 14, 2014
Creative Writing as Martial Art? Part 1
I have always tried to define the ethos that guides my writing. Until recently, the closest I could come to a complete answer was the idea of writing as craft. I was taking literature out of the world ...
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April 25, 2018Dream Space: an interview with Mikko Harvey
Mikko Harvey is the author of Unstable Neighbourhood Rabbit (House of Anansi, 2018). He received the 2017 RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award, and he currently lives in New York City, where he is the Joseph ...